Patricia Hernandez

Believe It Or Not, There Is Actually More Than One Way To Play A Game

Breaking a habit is no easy thing—even when a game designer does their best to give players options. Take Call of Duty: Black Ops II, for instance. Few things are as seductive to a CoD player as perfecting their kill/death ratio, and little about the game is designed from the ground up to encourage anything…

Cart Life, the the stark yet moving business simulator nominated for an IGF, is now available on Steam.

Gears of War: Judgment: The Kotaku Review

Our Gears of War: Judgment review has been updated with a multiplayer segment as well as an overall verdict on the game (finally). To sum: you might have a better time picking up Gears of War 3 instead. A good soldier doesn’t always follow orders—not if he or she wants to get the job done.…

What You Get When You Mash Game of Thrones And The Princess Bride Together

It’s been a while since I last watched The Princess Bride, but this video by CinestirTV is still pretty clever. I’m sure many of us have reacted to Game of Thrones in the same way as the grandson, eh? Here we are. It’s Friday. Got any plans? I need to finish two review games for…

Eurogamer asks: are the rich old men ruining Kickstarter?

Mario, Where Did Your Skin Go?

Check out this vinyl Mario by Rsin Art. They call it “Death Blooms,” and it’s easy to see why. The aesthetic is reminiscent of Dia De Los Muertos art—specifically, calaveras. Which, you know, is pretty cool even if it’s weird to see Mario like this. This Mario will be featured in the Game On show…

It’s Football, But Futuristic, Turn-Based, And Played By Robots

In 2011, indie developer Mode 7 Games released a turn-based strategy game called Frozen Synapse. It was pretty good. Now they’re following that up with Frozen Endzone, which is “futuristic, highly-stylized, exaggerated NFL football” according to PC Gamer You control five robots, but here’s where it gets interesting: you both move at once, with the…

You Can’t Open Crates With These Team Fortress 2 Mann Co. Keys

Ah, the wonders of 3D printing. Here are some real-life Mann Co. keys, printed by Reddit user ikonakona. You know, the things you need to open up those pesky crates in Team Fortress 2? Sure, you can’t do anything with them, but still—neat thing to have on your keychain. See, for instance: Though if you…

What the characters of Game of Thrones would look like if they were cats.

Are Rocket Jumps Or Double Jumps Actually Possible?

We do a lot of amazing, if not unrealistic things in video games. Take rocket jumps and double jumps, for example. Your immediate reaction might be “no, of course we can’t rocket jump or double jump in real life”—because really, how would we be able to propel ourselves with a rocket like in games? How…

This Man Claims To Be Behind The Phantom Pain. He’s Not Kojima.

When The Phantom Pain was announced, one thought was on everyone’s mind: it’s gotta be Metal Gear related, and “Joakim Mogren,” the CEO at Moby Dick studios, is really just Kojima. Evidence seemed to point that way, anyway. So who is this dude? The picture comes from a tweet from Geoff Keighley. Here is the…

Forget About Humanity. Robots Rule The Land In This Steampunk Game.

Where are the pesky humans? Funny story, that. They blew themselves up. Now steam-powered robots have taken over the world in Steamworld Dig, while what’s left of the “degenerate race of drunken, dynamite-wielding troglodytes” hide in caves beneath the surface. Steamworld Dig is a 3DS hardcore platform mining adventure game. You play as a “steambot”…

Leigh Alexander writes about the games we play to feel in control while our messy, ugly lives buzz in the background.

An Adorable Little Kid Walks Us Through A Minecraft Art Project

Remember Abe? Last time, he showed us how to make Cut The Rope cupcakes. This time, his project is less delicious but no less adorable: he walks us through how to make a Minecraft keychain. I for one am impressed not just with his obvious love and dedication to games, but how creative this little…

The Castle Doctrine, a burglary and home defense MMO by Jason Rohrer, now has a playable alpha. It’ll cost you, though.

If You Miss The Old-School Fallout Games, This Might Be For You

Underrail might be in development in 2013, but its roots are decidedly old-school. We’re talking influences like Fallout, Arcanum, Neverwinter Nights and System Shock 2. The Fallout influence is visible at a glance—I’d say, this is probably what a modern isometric Fallout might’ve looked like. But that’s only because Underrail doesn’t feature a huge aesthetic…

The New Tomb Raider Saved This Teenager’s Life

The first time Draven Miltenberger played Tomb Raider was in 1999. He was three years old. His home life might have been tumultuous thanks to how often he moved, but that was his constant: Tomb Raider “My family couldn’t pry it out of my hands,” he wrote in a blog post that described his love…

Look, It’s A Mod That Makes Skyrim More Like Far Cry 3

How would this joke go? It’s like Far Cry 3 but with magic? It’s like Skyrim but with Skyrim? It’s like Skyrim with guns, but without guns? Lord, I don’t even know. Regardless, check out this “Tropical Skyrim” mod by Soolie—which, like the name suggests, rehauls the climate in Skyrim into a tropical paradise. Actually,…

A Maxis insider tells Rock, Paper Shotgun that a single-player SimCity is not as impossible as we’ve been told.

A game that explores how even the simplest things are difficult, if not impossible, when you have dysphoria.